The legacy of heroin kingpin Frank Lucas, whose story was dramatized in the 2007 narrative feature American Gangster, is the focus of a forthcoming documentary film. The film features interviews with ...

New Documentary explores Frank Lucas, Black Gangster Lore, and the True Cost of Power NEW YORK, April 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The name Frank Lucas is legend—kingpin, hustler, mastermind. Harlem's most ...

A documentary narrated by Legs McNeil examines Frank Lucas' influence on drug trade and NYC culture, featuring insights from journalists, writers, and hip-hop figures who witnessed his impact on power ...

The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York in the 1970s sparked Richard Nixon’s War of Drugs. The goal was to “associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin” ...

The former agents and detectives say they were libeled by drug lord Frank Lucas. October 23, 2008— -- Nine former Drug Enforcement Administration agents and three former New York City detectives ...

From a sharecropper's shack in North Carolina to the top of Harlem's drug trade, Lucas recounts his eventful life in vivid detail. After witnessing his cousin's murder by the Klan in 1936, Lucas began ...

The scourge of heroin use by Black Americans in cities like New York in the 1970s sparked Richard Nixon's War of Drugs. The goal was to "associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin" ...